1477-03-18, Westminster

Commission to the king's brother Richard, duke of Gloucester, John knight, Edmund Hastynges, knight, Thomas Witham, Ralph esquire, Richard Conyers, esquire, William Coniers, esquire, Wicliff, esquire, William Pudsay, esquire, and John Colvyle to into the complaint of Bartold Foolkerdenek, merchant of Almain, and attorney of Hermann Derschowe, Margward Reene, Henry and Nicholas Shele, merchants of Lubyk in Almain, and John Forsten, Henry Hoosen, Simon Vrodelond, Henry Hyddesthorpe, de Heya and John Pothurst, merchants of Hamburgh in Almain, when a ship called le Jacob of Hamburgh, of which Henry Forsten master, laden with fish and other goods of the said merchants, viz. stock fish, 2000 staple fish and 9 tuns of trane, to the value of in Iceland to take to the port of London, was sailing off the coast the county of York on 81 August last and was driven ashore and the and master, mariners, merchants and merchandise were safe and the flood, one Thomas Lumley, knight, lord of Lumley, and Lumley, knight, and other evildoers assaulted the master, mariners, and their servants and broke the ship into small parts and it of the fish, goods and merchandise, contrary to the friendship the king and those of Almain, and to arrest and imprison the enders and cause restitution to be made.